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Berlioz: Les Troyens

0.0 250 mins Drama   Music   History   1983
Deutsche Grammophon  
Director(s): Brian Large

Berlioz’s colossal masterpiece requires stupendous forces—dozens of soloists, enormous chorus, orchestra and ballet, a superb conductor who understands the uniqueness of the score—plus a production that does visual justice to the work. “A stupendous achievement” was one critic’s assessment of Peter Wexler’s inventive production. And with James Levine’s wizardry galvanizing the marvelous all-star cast, this is truly a gem. Plácido Domingo is the legendary hero Aeneas, Jessye Norman the obsessed prophetess Cassandra, and Tatiana Troyanos is Queen Dido, who commits suicide when Aeneas leaves her.

Casts of Berlioz: Les Troyens

Jessye Norman

as Cassandre

Plácido Domingo

as Aeneas

Allan Monk

as Coroebus

Paul Plishka

as Narbal

James Levine

as Conductor

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